MORE MUSIC RAMBLING

We ended 2005 in an odd funk that lingers still. All about the tunes and the fact that too many of our mid-40s peers continue to think Pearl Jam is cool (note to peers: "Jeremy" is almost 15 years old and Ed Vedder is old before his time).

So we fire up the Shuffle and load up some tunes:

I'm So Sick
Flyleaf

Rapture
Hurt

Hate Me
Blue October

Table For One
Liz Phair

Soul Meets Body
Death Cab For Cutie

Take Me Back
Story Of The Year

Paperthin Hymn
Anberlin

Tear You Apart
She Wants Revenge

Cash Machine
Hard-Fi

Twisted Transistor
Korn

Always Love
Nada Surf

Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
We Are Scientists

And then we realize that it doesn't matter. Anberlin might have a bad-ass sound and We Are Scientists is almost as good as Motion City Soundtrack. Every teen we know is suddenly into Boston and "More Than A Feeling," the precursor to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The words of our 8th-grade science teacher, Mr. Takano, chime in our mind: For some there is no hope.